WP Customer Area

Description

WP Customer Area is a modular all-in-one solution to manage private content with WordPress. Sharing files/pages with
one or multiple users is one of the main feature provided by our easy-to-use plugin. Give it a try!

WP Customer Area is available for free and should cover the needs of most users. If you want to encourage us to actively
maintain it, or if you need a particular feature not included in the basic plugin, you can buy our premium extensions
from our online shop

Special thanks

To Steve Steiner for his intensive testing on the plugin, his bug reports and support.

Avis

Very flexible and well coded. Had an issue with a missing feature and the author wrote the necessary to add it.
Doesn't get much better than this folks!
Plugin works well too. It'll be my go to customer management tool from now on.

This free plugin is a very good start to create a private content site. Add some paid extension and you will have everything you need. Other extensions like Project and Task are also interesting for a reasonable price. It's not always easy to understand how the plugin works but the support staff is very kind and helpful.

First, I was called a thief for asking for a refund since the plugin didn't fit my use case. Then, I was called lazy for not doing extensive research into how I would use his plugin before purchasing the add on. I don't know who's burned this guy in the past but he treats you like crap for disagreeing or asking for a refund. He wouldn't know proper customer service if it slapped him in the face. He might take the post down where he was so immensely rude for no real reason but I have screenshots and printed to pdf. Make sure you spend 5+ hours trying out every plugin or he's going to talk down to you like you are an idiot for having an issue.

After digging into several other plugins that claim to be the best out there - this one takes the prize for the best functionality. It really does cover all of the bases. It will take you some time to set it up so I recommend that you do so on a staging site.
Honestly, I was put off a bit at first by the fact that the CSS needs some customization if you want it to look like something from this decade. However, don't let that distract you. This is a powerhouse of a plugin. Any designer worth their salt can make it look the way they want it to.
This plugin does have a lot of moving parts, and I recommend that you look into the packages for the best deals on the extensions you may need for your business.
I also want to compliment the support team. They are very responsive and have been able to answer all of my questions (even the dumb ones) with patience and courtesy.

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Journal

7.7.2 (2019/08/21)

Fix: renamed ‘skins/frontend/master/assets/css/eqcss/queries.eqcss’ to ‘queries.css’ to prevent it to be blocked by servers for security reasons
Warning: DO NOT cache ‘queries.css’ using cache plugins ! This file is not a CSS file, but a file interpreted by a JS script.

Fix: issue on my-account page that was making the left column of the fields too small for some sites

** Add-on changes **

Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.7.2

7.7.1 (2019/08/21)

Fix: issue on my-account page that was making the left column of the fields too small for some sites

Notifications – New: Add filter to allow filtering the IDs of the users who should receive the notifications targeted at administrators. Use filter ‘cuar/notifications/administrator-recipient-ids’ to customize.

Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.6.0 and ACF v5.0.0

Collaboration – Tweak: update translations

Search – Fix: issue with form submission on Internet Explorer

All add-ons – Fix: remove use of WP_***_URL constants in favor of functions #315

4.0.2 (2014/02/17)

New: Add a class to the body element on customer area pages (helps to tweak CSS)

Fix: redirect issue occuring sometimes (headers already sent)

Fix: small issue when re-creating the customer area menu in some cases

Fix: Some small fixes on the default-v4 theme

4.0.1 (2014/02/16)

New: Added a reminder to configure the plugin permissions

Fix: normal WordPress pages could not be added to any navigation menu

4.0.0 (2014/02/15)

THIS IS A MAJOR UPDATE – PLEASE MAKE SOME TESTS ON YOUR DEVELOPMENT AND TEST SITES BEFORE UPGRADING YOUR LIVE WEBSITE

Completely changed the way information is displayed in the frontend. Now the plugin uses a system of pages similar to the one used by WooCommerce for example.
This has allowed greater possibilities for customization (Widget areas, more templates to override, …)

The customer area main navigation menu now is a WordPress menu that can be customized just like any other WordPress menu (from the admin page: « Appearance » > « Menus »)

Restructured the options page. It now has less tabs and should group options in a more logical way. If you have commercial add-ons, you may need to enter their
license key again. These are available by logging-in with your credentials at http://www.marvinlabs.com/shop/your-account/

Added category column in the admin page for private files and private pages (A pending feature request from several users)

Refactored a lot of code to make the plugin ligher and more efficient. Should also reduce the amount of duplicated code and thus the potential hidden bugs.

Add possibility to include a function file in your Customer Area theme (See included frontend theme: default-v4). Works like WordPress’ functions.php file for themes
except that this file should be located in your Customer Area theme folder (not the WordPress theme’s folder) and it should be named ‘cuar-functions.php’

3.7.2 (2013/11/26)

3.7.1 (2013/11/22)

Remove a PHP warning in the new private file screen when the FTP upload folder does not exist

Fixed a bug when setting a default owner with Collaboration add-on active and without Extended Permissions add-on active

Optimised a lot of pages that were slow, in particular on sites with lots of users

3.7.0 (2013/11/06)

Allow to copy files from an FTP folder rather than directly uploading them from the browser. Handy for big files! Thanks to Pat O’Brien for his work on this feature.

3.6.2 (2013/11/05)

Added POT file to easy translation work

Added some handy actions and filters

Added compatibility with the new add-on to view another Customer Area easily

3.5.0 (2013/11/01)

Added a setting to adjust the number of items shown in the dashboard for each private content type

Allow listing private files grouped by months

Fix main menu warnings when using the collaboration add-on

3.4.1 (2013/10/30)

Fixed a fatal error when showing the customer area for a guest user

3.4.0 (2013/10/30)

Allowing to output the main menu in the single post pages (Some templates have changed in the customer page core add-on, careful if you have customized any of those)

Fixed a typo causing a fatal error below « select the type of owner »

3.3.0 (2013/10/27)

Added actions and filters to allow more customisation without having to change the templates

Added a new capability for private content to allow some role to be able to view any private content (useful for admins/moderators)

Refined capabilities for the back-office

3.2.3 (2013/10/24)

Updated italian translation

3.2.2 (2013/10/22)

Added a way to hide the owner when only a single owner is selectable when creating private content (requested by 2 users). This
is disabled by default and enabled by a checkbox in the general plugin settings.

Fixed bug when accessing a private file/page/conversation directly: if the user follows a link directly to a private
page, this presents the standard wordpress login and not the plugin login page.